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| legally adding land area to a city in the United States |
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| an area delineated by the U.S. Bureau of the Census for which statistics are published; in urbanized areas, census tracts correspond roughly to neighborhoods |
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| a cooperative agency consisting of represenatives of local governments in a metrapolitan area in the United States |
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| the change in density in an urban area from the center to the periphery |
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| a large nod of office and retail activites on the edge of an urban area |
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| a process of change in the use of a house, from single-family owner occupancy to abandonment |
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| process of converting an urban neighborhood from a predominantly lowincome renter-occupied to a predominantly middle-class owner-occupued area |
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| ring of land maintained as parks, agriculture, or other types of open space to limit the sprawl of an urban area |
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| Metropolitcan Statistical Area (MAS) |
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| In the United States, a central city of atleast 50,000 popilation, the county within which the city is located, and adjacent counties meeting over several tests indicating a function connection to the central city |
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| Micropolitcan Statistical Area |
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| an urbanized area of between 10,000 and 50,000 inhavitants, the county in which it is found, and adjecent counties tied to the city |
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| a model of north american urban areas consisting of an inner city surrounded by a large suburban residential and business areas tied together by a beltway or ring road |
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| housing owned by the government, in the United States it is rented to low-income residents and the rents are set at 30 percent of the families incomes |
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| a process by which banks draw lines on a ma and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries |
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| the four consecutive 15-minute periods in the morning and evening with the heaviest volumes of traffic |
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| a model of the internal structure of cities in which social groups are arranged around a series of sectors, or wedges, radiating out from the CBD |
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| legislation and regulations to limit suburban sprawl and preserve farmland |
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| development of new housing sites at relatively low density and at locations that are not contigous to the exstng built-up area |
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| an area within a city in a less-developed country in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures |
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| a group in society prevented from participating in the material benefits of a more developed society because of variety of social and economic characteristics |
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| an increase in the percentage an in the number of people living in urban settlements |
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| in the united States, a central city plus its contiguous built-up suburbs |
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| program in whcih cities identify blighted inner-city neighborhoods acquire the properties from private owners, relocate the residents and businesses, clear the site, build new roads and utilities and turn the land over to private developers |
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| a law that limits the permitted uses of land and maximum density of development in a community |
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| What fraction of the population lives in urban areas in MDCs? |
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| What fraction of the population lives in urban areas |
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| According to Lewis Wirth, what three chracteristics to permanent settlements have? |
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| Large Size, High Density, an Social Heterogeneity |
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| legally incorporated, independent, and self-governing |
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| What percentage of the US lives in urban cities? |
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| What is a micropolitan statistical area? |
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| a city within the country is located |
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| What are the three models of urban strucutre? |
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| Concentric model, sector model, and multiple nuclei model |
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| E.W. Burgess, City grows outward from a central area, the CBD is the location of nonresidential activites. there is a zone of transition, a zone of independent workers homes, a zone of better residents and a commuters zone |
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